Borders Quotes - Page 6

• Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning to become global. Before that the United States had been mostly a regional power - Britain was the biggest global power. After the Second World War, national security is everywhere, because we basically owned the world, so our security is threatened everywhere. Not just on our borders, but everywhere - so you have to have a thousand military bases around the world for "defense."

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, War, Defense

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are fleeing in desperation. They come to the border, and we put them in trucks and send them back to Mexico to die. And here people are scared of illegal immigrants - that's what we're doing. It's pretty shocking.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Atrocities, Fleeing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts, are we in Iraq to help restore something, or are we there to establish dominance? How can you torture people and say, well, that's just a few bad apples in our culture?

  Dar Williams

  Heart, Rivers, Iraq

  Source: progressive.org

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• In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.

  Pico Iyer

  World, Shifting, Happenings

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.

  Elia Suleiman

  New York, Identity, Identification

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

  Tony Abbott

  Australia, Want, Refugee

  "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.

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• The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Important, Age, Robins

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• You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.

  Marina Abramovic

  Interesting, Break, Figures

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• I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

  Sherman Alexie

  Adventurous Life, Individual, Should

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• The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

  Maya Angelou

  Loss, First Love, Love Is

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.244, Modern Library

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• Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Stuff, Flow, Boxes

  "Narrative Magazine’s Friday Feature: Margaret Atwood Interview, In Which She Talks About “A Handmaid’s Tale”, “The Year Of The Flood” And Having Fun". Interview with Jo Scott-Coe, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.

  William Bartram

  White, May, Settlement

  William Bartram (1794). “Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West-Florida (etc.) 2nd Ed. - London, J. Johnson 1794”, p.20

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• House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

  John Boehner

  Strong, Ifs And, House

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2006.

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• This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.

  John Boehner

  Israel, Law, Territory

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• Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.

  John O. Brennan

  Military, Arms, Littles

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.

  Jan Brewer

  Wall, America, House

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• Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.

  Jan Brewer

  Jobs, Government, Texas

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

  Jan Brewer

  People, Police, Mexico

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• Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Humor, Political

  George W. Bush's Speech at Annual National Prayer Breakfast, www.cnn.com. February 1, 2001.

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• Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Law, Border Security

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• Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.

  Herman Cain

  Real, Issues, Blame

  "Cain: 'President Threw Israel Under the Bus'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2011.

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• The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.

  Herman Cain

  Real, People, Citizens

  "Herman Cain: Transcript of ABC/Yahoo News Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. November 8, 2011.

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• We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

  Paul Cellucci

  Law, Drug, Tourism

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• Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

  Susan Orlean

  Fate, Decision, Demise

  "Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.

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• This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Distance, Promise, Tunes

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